| Mobility and fractionation of REEs during deep weathering of geochemically contrasting granites in a tropical setting, Malaysia ZM Yusoff, BT Ngwenya, I Parsons Chemical Geology 349, 71-86, 2013 | 220 | 2013 |
| Feldspars and fluids in cooling plutons I Parsons Mineralogical Magazine 42 (321), 1-17, 1978 | 214 | 1978 |
| Alkali feldspars: ordering rates, phase transformations and behaviour diagrams for igneous rocks WL Brown, I Parsons Mineralogical Magazine 53 (369), 25-42, 1989 | 211 | 1989 |
| Development of microporosity, diffusion channels and deuteric coarsening in perthitic alkali feldspars RH Worden, FDL Walker, I Parsons, WL Brown Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 104 (5), 507-515, 1990 | 204 | 1990 |
| Towards a more practical two-feldspar geothermometer WL Brown, I Parsons Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 76 (4), 369-377, 1981 | 169 | 1981 |
| Micropores and micropermeable texture in alkali feldspars: geochemical and geophysical implications FDL Walker, MR Lee, I Parsons Mineralogical Magazine 59 (396), 505-534, 1995 | 158 | 1995 |
| 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology using alkali feldspars: real thermal history or mathematical mirage of microtexture? I Parsons, WL Brown, JV Smith Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 136 (1), 92-110, 1999 | 147 | 1999 |
| Argon-loss by alkali feldspars I Parsons, DC Rex, P Guise, AN Halliday Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 52 (5), 1097-1112, 1988 | 146 | 1988 |
| Dislocation formation and albitization in alkali feldspars from the Shap granite MR Lee, I Parsons American Mineralogist 82 (5-6), 557-570, 1997 | 134 | 1997 |
| Origins of igneous layering I Parsons Springer Science & Business Media 196, 666, 1987 | 133* | 1987 |
| The role of intragranular microtextures and microstructures in chemical and mechanical weathering: direct comparisons of experimentally and naturally weathered alkali feldspars MR Lee, ME Hodson, I Parsons Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 62 (16), 2771-2788, 1998 | 114 | 1998 |
| Microtextural controls of weathering of perthitic alkali feldspars MR Lee, I Parsons Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 59 (21), 4465-4488, 1995 | 114 | 1995 |
| Mutual replacement reactions in alkali feldspars I: microtextures and mechanisms I Parsons, MR Lee Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 157 (5), 641-661, 2009 | 113 | 2009 |
| Biochemical evolution II: Origin of life in tubular microstructures on weathered feldspar surfaces I Parsons, MR Lee, JV Smith Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 95 (26), 15173-15176, 1998 | 108 | 1998 |
| Feldspars and the thermal history of igneous rocks I Parsons, WL Brown Feldspars and feldspathoids: Structures, properties and occurrences, 317-371, 1984 | 106 | 1984 |
| Biomechanical and biochemical weathering of lichen-encrusted granite: textural controls on organic–mineral interactions and deposition of silica-rich layers MR Lee, I Parsons Chemical Geology 161 (4), 385-397, 1999 | 101 | 1999 |
| Exsolution and coarsening mechanisms and kinetics in an ordered cryptoperthite series WL Brown, I Parsons Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 86 (1), 3-18, 1984 | 101 | 1984 |
| Exsolution and alteration microtextures in alkali feldspar phenocrysts from the Shap granite MR Lee, KA Waldron, I Parsons Mineralogical Magazine 59 (394), 63-78, 1995 | 100 | 1995 |
| The Klokken Gabbro—Syenite Complex, South Greenland: Cryptic Variation and Origin of Inversely Graded Layering IAN PARSONS Journal of Petrology 20 (4), 653-694, 1979 | 99 | 1979 |
| Feldspars and their Reactions I Parsons Springer Science & Business Media, 2012 | 96 | 2012 |